Systematics is intended to be the study of qualitative and structural aspects of all things in the universe; and if feasible, is designed to absorb eventually the quantitative approach of mathematics toward human and physical worlds as well. It is hoped that systematics will be able to develop a quantitative field and thus to enable it to incorporate mathematics into its realm of studies some time in the future.

“You taught me a great expression a few years ago, Joey—don’t forget it yourself.” “What expression?” I asked. “Money talks—bullshit walks. Joey, the further away from the Chairman I get, the better I like it.”

The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted, their dreams, Mr. McCarthy writes, “ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.”

But as this quartet of women filmmakers make new contributions to a very old genre, they’re united […] in critiquing the frontier illusion itself, the fantasy that fleeing toward the next horizon offers riches as well as freedom from the waste and damage left behind.